inebriated

adj
/ɪˈniː.bɹi.eɪ.tɪd/

Etymology

From Latin inēbriātus, past participle of inēbriō (“intoxicate”) from in- + ēbrius (“drunk, intoxicated”) from Proto-Italic *ēɣʷrjos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ēgʷʰ-ryo-s from root *h₁egʷʰ- (“drink”); whence also ebrious and inebriate.

  1. derived from *ēɣʷrjos
  2. derived from inēbriātus

Definitions

  1. Behaving as though affected by alcohol including exhilaration, and a dumbed or stupefied…

    Behaving as though affected by alcohol including exhilaration, and a dumbed or stupefied manner.

    • Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.
  2. simple past and past participle of inebriate

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at inebriated. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at inebriated. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at inebriated

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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